In December i was writing about Google’s speed tracker. Today, i had to test some web page performance, so, i tried googles speed tracker – and the results was not so informative as i wished to be. I had to get more data on what is slowing down the page.
So I went on a hunt for the best web page performance tool, wich would give me the information i needed to improve speed of web page.
After some hours of searching, i found the tool i was looking for – http://www.webpagetest.org, and ofcourse i share it with you. With this tool i could easily spot problems wich were slowing down the web page. Thats all i need :)
Here are some images, just to see what are the results…
Google launched new extension for Google chrome called Speed Tracer.
Speed Tracer is a tool to help you identify and fix performance problems in your web applications. It visualizes metrics that are taken from low level instrumentation points inside of the browser and analyzes them as your application runs. Speed Tracer is available as a Chrome extension and works on all platforms where extensions are currently supported (Windows and Linux).
Using Speed Tracer you are able to get a better picture of where time is being spent in your application. This includes problems caused by JavaScript parsing and execution, layout, CSS style recalculation and selector matching, DOM event handling, network resource loading, timer fires, XMLHttpRequest callbacks, painting, and more.
In October i was writing about some open source and free online invoicing systems. Today i found new online project management and invoicing tool called Project Bubble. Project Bubble is a free, simple and fun project management web app for freelance or personal projects.
Project Bubble works great for freelancers who work on their own, becouse it was made from such a freelancer – things are usually best if you do it for yourself…
Becouse the first bubble’s thing is simplicity, id doesnt have a lot of features, it just covers on what you really need:
Bookkeeping is surely not the most exciting thing when you run your own business. It is usually the most tedious work, and nobody likes it. But when tax people come to your door, you can have a BIG problem if you didnt keep your books nice and celan. Who can remember some expenses half a year ago?
Streamlining the work involved with owning a business, helping entrepreneurs pay the right taxes, record financial transactions, and keep their businesses on track and growing.
Believing business owners spend too much time and effort on the least enjoyable part of running one’s own business, Outright goal is to make it simple, helping entrepreneurs track all of their income and expenses to get their taxes done accurately.
In our previous post we checked free online invoicing tools, wich are hosted on others servers, so you dont have to deal with hosting yourself.
Now, lets check open source invoicing systems, wich you can put on your pc or server. To do this, you either have to have knowledge or you pay someone to do it for you. This is clearly disandvantage, but there are also some good things in this:
You are in control. It sits on your server. Its your data.
You never need to trust your invoicing data to anyone else, and you can get it out of the system easily.
If you run a small business or do any freelancing like me, you need a convenient way to send invoices to clients. Sure, you can keep track of all customer information in a spreadsheet, but you can also use an online invoicing tool.
While there is loads of online invoincing tools out there, most of them are not free. They offer a professional commercial invoicing system, but impose strict limitations on their free offering. Such limitations usually manifest themselves in the number of invoices you can send each month, or in the number of clients you can manage, or some other thing. While this is good to try the product before buying, its unusable for serious work.
So if you want to save some bucks, here are some best free online invoincing tools:
SlickPlan is a web-based sitemap/flowchart generator that allows for the creation of free sitemap and flowchart design. SlickPlan was handcrafted with PHP/MySQL and jQuery by the Dayton website design team at Atomic Interactive.
It lets you create free flowcharts and sitemaps quickly and easily. Unlike other software programs, SlickPlan has only one purpose – to create beautiful, functional sitemaps and flowcharts.
Slick Plan was developed with the web designer and developer in mind, but it can be used by anyone who needs a quick and professional sitemap or flowchart for their planning project.
If you are a web designer and you need to convert your PSD design files into HTML / XHTML & CSS, you may need some help if you are also not a good coder.
You have probably seen a lot of advertisements for this service on various blogs and portals, but how to choose the right one?
People behind psdtohtmlcompanies.com had same problem, so they had an idea to launch a service to make the task of selecting a PSD to HTML provider less complicated and more effective. The result is here:
